With Love from Finland :)

Woohoo! Postcard Numero Dos!

:)

And this time, it comes with translation! So no more guessing work :)

Pullas!

I bet Chago would love this when we start learning about the Scandinavian Countries.

"Sweet Bread called Pulla was a rare treat. Since good flour was hard to get and mills were miles away, pulla was baked only for holidays. A large amount of dough was prepared, and some of the remaining sweet bread was dried into rusk. Ram head pullas and grandma's baking towel from Western Finland."

Love that little hippo :)

Or at least, I think it's a Hippo...

Till we post cross next!

Our First Postcard!!!

YAY!

We got our FIRST Postcard today and so Chago did the hokey pokey dance yee haa!

And this is what our sender wrote at the back of the postcard in red:

"Hei, This picture is for a children song, about spring, flowers, and walking without shoes, Hapy post-Crossing.

Anikka"

 Anikka Kaller of Sweeden :D

 

I love the stamp too! A man feeding the steam engine's coal burner or whatever you call that...

Will look it up tomorrow morning.

Gah! My ignorance!

In my Post Crossing Profile, I mentioned how I wanted my postcards to be in their native language and without translation.

Great, now I realized that these comes with hyphens etc and what IF i receive a postcard in Japanese or Chinese???

So, now I would need to do some editing in my profile

If anyone knows how to translate this, do help!

Till I post Cross again!

Post Crossing

While having a cup of hot Milo the other day,

I was browsing through my Facebook updates and saw that one of the Home Schooling mamas I know through one of the Homeschool Network Groups have an album on Post Crossing.

This is something new to me...

Interesting too...

Sending and receiving Post Cards like how I used to write letters and on post cards too to pen pals I once had during my younger years.

Chago may be too young to understand this now but I am hoping that by the time he learns to appreciate any of this, we'll have a lot of postcards on the wall scattered and threaded onto countries on a huge World Atlas!

Today, most people communicate by email, social networks and the whole letter writing and postcard thing isn't appreciated much anymore.
I however, actually still do prefer printing my photographs on paper,

Sending Greeting Cards physically than virtually,

Send little silly notes in envelopes to some of my customers sometimes.

All these things adds personal touches to what the other end is receiving...

This is also the reason why I prefer DIY handmade gifts rather than to buy them off stores.

The effort and time put in to do something worth more than just putting money over counters.

ANYWAYS....

Chago and I signed up for Post Crossing and we've sent out 4 postcards to Finland, Russia, Taiwan and Netherlands.

We're excited to get a postcard back!

We got news that one of our postcards have made it's way to Finland! Hooray!

Here's the Postcards that we have sent out.

Photos taken by me, printed them out and turned them into postcards.

Enjoy!

Picture of a Temple near Jalan Sultan, nearby Jalan Petaling in Kuala Lumpur for Brigette Van Der Heyde of The Netherlands

Malaysian Bear Uniting for Peace for Dorofeeva Ola of Russia

A typical rainy day of our local Kampung Air in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah for Piitu L of Finland

A picture I took at Lokawi Zoo of an Orang Utan mum smelling her young for Shiu-Wen of Taiwan

Hope to get ours soon!